- Featuring selected works from the annual exhibition of emerging new‑media artists, on view in Diriyah through November 7.
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October 8, 2026 11:57
‘Echoes of the Unseen’
Harpreet Sareen
Harpreet Sareen, a NYC‑based artist, investigates captivity as a long‑standing framework for human‑animal relationships. The piece questions whether confining a parakeet in a Hyderabad living room or a finch in a Brooklyn pet shop is merely care, ornament, commerce, or inheritance—or something more violent and transgressive. Instead of presenting an image that can be glanced away from, Sareen invites visitors to engage in an embodied act of attention that they must build, sustain, and ultimately decide to release.
‘The Farm’
Foreseen Agency
Foreseen Agency, the duo of Kachi Chan and Shan Wong, presents eighteen one‑meter data stacks, each displaying a fragmented human body across six screens. Head, torso, and limbs are split and isolated so no single screen shows a complete figure. The body exists only as a dispersed system, synchronized across surfaces through motion. Arranged concentrically into a monolithic tower, the installation creates a field of synchronized yet disjointed movement that strikes the viewer.
‘Suspended Memory’
Fai Ahmed
Fai Ahmed surrounds a desk with large‑scale projections of shifting digital landscapes reminiscent of old‑school video games. The work probes how we retain what was never written down, recorded, or formally preserved—small rituals, undocumented events, fragments that vanish without institutional trace. It notes that oral storytelling has long served as a fluid, situated archive dependent on human connection, yet every act of archiving also involves selection. Memory, likewise, selects, distorts, forgets, and reshapes rather than preserving.
‘The Time That Remains’
Omar Adel
Omar Adel’s single‑channel video installation is part of his broader research on the end of time as a catalyst for sociopolitical change. The piece begins from the premise that the human condition is historically layered. It asks what forms of consciousness arise in locales undergoing rapid transformation, where social, economic, and cultural shifts outpace collective absorption.